Audience is encouraged to bring their own drums, cow bells and shakers and participate in the drum circle.

Also suggest they bring lawn chairs.

Cumberland County's only waterfront Friday night option celebrates all things made and played BY HAND!

In the Gallery:

This month's exhibit, By Hand, will feature nine artists and will run through Bay Day on Saturday, June 7.

Among the artists featured in the exhibit are:

J. P. Hand, local master decoy carver.

Merry May, quilter.

Max Samuelson, wooden bicycles.

Scott E. Smith, wood and metal worker.

Other artists with works exhibited will be:

Jay Demerest, carved fish.

Alice Kudla, Jewelry.

Steve Gates and Eva Parvin, leather work.

Lily Levine, basketry.

All artists will be in attendance at the opening reception. J. P. Hand

has been carving ducks from Jersey white cedar for about 40 years.

His family has lived in Cape May County since the 1700s.

His step-grandfather, Ephraim Hildreth, was also a decoy carver -—today, his rare shorebird decoys go for thousands of dollars on the antiques market.

Hand learned his craft from two masters — Hurley Conklin, and Harry Shourds, a third-generation decoy carver and NEA National Heritage Fellow.

Merry May

She is practically a Tuckahoe native.

She has been a quiltmaker since the early 1970s, quilting instructor since 1988; lecturer, designer, author, quilt historian, appraiser, curator, and fabric and button hoarder.

She travels throughout the eastern half of the U.S. to teach quilting, and organizes biannual BBQ Bed, Breakfast & Quilt Weekends in Wildwood Crest with her Best Quilting Buddy, Lorraine Fenstermacher.

Merry leads "Gilda's Quiltas" at Gilda's Club in Linwood bimonthly.

Her work often incorporates color in unexpected ways, resulting in people commenting that they would never use that particular combination of colors with this level of success.

She also enjoys taking nature photographs and then interpreting the images into fabric and thread.

Her work is in public and private collections worldwide.

Max Samuelson

Max’s handmade woody bicycles and tricycles, for people of all ages, are made from domestic and exotic hardwoods.

These functional bikes are great to look at and even better to ride.

Scott E. Smith

Scott born and raised in Northfield, Atlantic County.

He learned the carpentry trade from his father, George, and after building custom houses and cabinets for 10 years went into the bridge building business.

While restoring a circa 1790 house in Cape May County, he learned blacksmithing, making hand-forged hinges, locks, and other hardware for the house.

Now retired, Scott has taken up a hobby of crafting primitive-style cabinets and woodenware, some with his hand-wrought hinges.

He also makes a variety of metal and wrought iron pieces.

Many of his pieces are replicas of antiques and most feature a distressed, milk paint finish.

His wife, Joan Berkey, does the stenciling and hand-painted details found on some of them.

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In Bridgeton, the word on Penn Street is 12 vehicles belonging to one half-double parked on the street.

At least they’re not in the yard.

One is a Hummer.

No children visible, so that is a good thing.

The rumor is there are six people there who all own two vehicles.

No doubt city hall has checked this out.

You could get a bad back in this kind of arrangement.

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Now, if there is a fire and 12 people get killed, what will be the knee jerk reaction?

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MY KIND OF TOWN: Where who needs to buy the vacant bed and breakfast on West Commerce Street when all you need is a half-double.